I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
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JeanPaul Sartre
I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction
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Carroll Bryant
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
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Greta Garbo
Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the...
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Nick Harkaway
Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Kevin Powers
We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.
I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which they were a part. And so on, until it all dissolved into the larger thing: my mother's house becoming every other house as...
Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
